Technology
Against the currency grain
Mexican peso modelling
Exotic FX pulse set to race
The forex business
Senior exit heralds DrKW trouble?
People news
Playing catch-up
Technology
AIB’s Rusnak put false trades into SunGard’s Devon system
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Banks seek to cut costs through customer self-service
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “I have come to you with a problem – we need to outsource our balance-sheet funding” From an e-mail sent last year by John Rusnak to an unnamed counterparty, referring to his deep-in-the-money options trades, or ‘synthetic loans'.
Servicing the e-industry
Investing in IT infrastructure development is essential in today’s often fractured environment of rival software languages and specific trading needs. Clive Davidson discovers what is on offer to bring these disparate elements together
A piece of the pie
Comment
DataSynapse gathers momentum
DataSynapse – winner of Risk magazine’s 2002 software product of the year award for its LiveCluster product – has unveiled five new hires.
GFI offers repo traders a new derivatives tool
New York-based interdealer broker GFI has added forward allocation general collateral (FAGC) repurchase agreements and corporate bond repos to its GFInet European trading screen.
Patsystems' Jones survives no-confidence vote
The results of patsystems' extraordinary general meeting (EGM) held yesterday could not have produced better results from the perspective of the London-based independent software vendor’s current management team.
Prebon launches online FRA matching system
Brokerage house Prebon Yamane Asia-Pacific has launched an online matching system for floating rate reset risk positions in swap portfolios for Australian dollar (A$) and Hong Kong dollar (HK$) currencies.